When Yang Rui was still in the ward, several people from the Standing Committee in Beijing were discussing in the outer room, and Cai Yuanpei, who finally arrived and saw that the militia had been mobilized everywhere, said anxiously: "What do you want to do?" It's not going to be a war with other countries, is it? ”

"It's just a drill." Cai Yuanpei's word for war was very harsh, and Du Yaquan immediately corrected it. "That's how the reserve law is determined, once there is something in the inner city, then the whole city will be mobilized. Now that Zhengyangmen has changed in this way, of course the inner city will be mobilized. ”

"Hasn't Zhengyangmen been negotiating?" Cai Yuanpei said, "It seems that we have been talking about it for several years, why haven't we talked about it yet?" ”

"Zhengyangmen City Tower is the commanding height of the entire eastern suburbs of the alley, as long as it occupies here, it can be bombarded everywhere in the alley by setting up cannons, and it is because of this that the foreigners refuse to return it." Du Yaquan sneered again, "Don't they know that in such a small place as Minxiang in the eastern suburbs, there is no need for any commanding heights, and a few 280 siege artillery guns will be bombarded, and if they don't surrender, they will turn into powder." I think this place is not handed over, maybe because I can't let go of face, but the most important thing for me is that the Americans want to disgust us. ”

"Is it good for China and Japan?" Although Cai Yuanpei was concentrating on academic affairs, he could also know from the internal briefing that Sino-US relations were deteriorating day by day, and the most important thing was that Sino-Japanese relations were on good terms, especially after hearing that China had ordered two large warships from Japan, then the vice admiral of the US Navy was so angry that he resigned, and the navy is a sign of Sino-US friendship, and now ordering warships does not go to the United States to find Japan, this matter will be a big one.

"Probably." Du Yaquan nodded, and after polishing the match, he lit the cigarette and swallowed the clouds.

"Uncle Mei is fine. Let's discuss how to deal with this matter, right? Qiu Jin, who was holding the hilt of the sword in one hand, came in the afternoon, and at first she thought it was just an accident, and even if there was a dispute, it would soon subside. I don't want things to get bigger and bigger. Zhengyangmen was burned again -- Zhengyangmen was burned by foreign soldiers once in the winter of Gengzi year, and this time it was set ablaze by the artillery fire of the Americans, which really made her extremely angry. Although she wanted to take revenge on the Americans, she endured it after all, and only wanted to know what Yang Rui would do.

"What else can I do?" Yang Rui had just come out of the inner room, and when he heard Qiu Jin's words, he immediately excused himself. "These two years are not the time to turn the other cheek, and moving the United States is equivalent to moving the Entente. Russia and France have both declared war on us, and if they want to fall out with the United States, they will be against the entire Entente. ”

"What about Zhengyangmen? The fire is so big. If you don't put out the fire, then it's ......," Qiu Jin said hurriedly.

"After the Zhengyangmen City Tower was burned in the year of Gengzi, because the drawings left were also destroyed by foreigners, they had to be rebuilt according to the drawings of the arrow tower in front, which was not compliant. The Ministry of Rites has repeatedly said that it will be renovated and repaired. But this tower has always been in the hands of the Americans, and it is distressing to say that it is demolished. It's good now, it's just been repaired after it was burned. "Yang Rui doesn't care about the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the city tower at all, even if he spends tens of millions of silver, he has to build the capital like a capital.

"What about the militia?" Du Yaquan, who was next to him, said, "Today's incident has spread everywhere, and everyone is full of righteous indignation, and they want to fight with the Americans." Now so many people are gathering ......"

"It's just a drill." Yang Rui emphasized, "If the General Staff does not have an order. Then they will be disbanded. As he spoke, he thought of Li Zilong's news that someone in the army was excited, and then said, "Even if you are resentful and dissatisfied in your heart, you must carry out the order." Go back first, and I'll go out and have a look. ”

"You're going to see?" Du Yaquan didn't know what Yang Rui was going to do, and said, "Then let's go too." ”

After the Fourth National Congress, although there were changes in the seven-member Standing Committee, it was only Yu Huizu who felt that there were too many Zhejiang people in the Standing Committee, so Xu Guantian, who was virtuous in the peasant association, and the others still retained. However, today Xu Huafeng and Xu Guantian are not in the capital, and Xie Jintai is in the Prime Minister's Palace, so only Du Yaquan, Qiu Jin, and Cai Yuanpei arrived at the Tai Hospital. Du Yaquan said that he wanted to go with Yang Rui, and Qiu Jin and Cai Yuanpei also nodded immediately.

"Is there any news from Chong'an?" It was already the lunar month, and it was very cold outside, so Yang Rui asked about the situation while putting on his coat and cloak with the help of Li Zilong.

"Prime Minister, Mr. Chong'an has no news, he only said that the British minister came to Yin'an Hall to negotiate for a while and then went back." Li Zilong said. After he finished speaking, Liu Boyuan of the Security Bureau next to him then reported: "Sir, the foreign soldiers from various countries in Tianjin have rushed to the eastern suburbs of Minxiang, and the expatriates in the alley have been issued weapons, and they are ready to defend like Gengzi Nian. ”

"Leave them alone." Yang Rui went out of the courtyard through the curtain under the escort of Ye Yunbiao, the north wind was fierce outside, and this time he was blown a face of wind and snow, and people shivered from the cold.

"Commander, let's get in the car, it's faster." Ye Yunbiao, who was standing next to him, felt that Yang Rui was not very suitable for this kind of weather, and said euphemistically.

"No, you don't! Let's just walk over there. He looked at the three people behind him and said, "Just walk over like this." ”

Tai Hospital was originally on the near side of Zhengyangmen this time, but after the Gengzi year, the eastern suburbs of Minxiang were divided into the embassy area, so they had to move to Dong'anmen Street for a temporary stay, and finally built a new one in the imperial city outside Di'anmen. It is at least five kilometers from here to Zhengyangmen, and it takes an hour and a half to walk through it in the wind and snow, Du Yaquan is just that, Cai Yuanpei, who only reads, and Qiu Jin, who is a little foot, can't stand it after walking far, so he has to get into the official car and follow behind. The official car is the most high-end, there is not only air conditioning on it, but also an electric kettle, people go up to slow down and blow hot tea, and they don't want to come down at all.

And Yang Rui walked in the wind and snow, looking at the soldiers on both sides of the road who saluted like himself, his body was getting hotter and hotter, and his heart was getting more and more steady, he was originally worried that the militia was not a soldier after all, such a big wind and snow is estimated to not even be in good shape, but the militia who didn't want to see it were all energetic and well-behaved, which reassured him.

But this is not very good news came over, and when he walked to Wangfujing, Li Zilong reported: "Prime Minister, the militia at Zhengyangmen will not disband after receiving the order to disband. ”

"What do they want to do if they don't retreat?" Yang Rui had long guessed that things would not be solved so simply, he could make a rational decision, but others would think that such a compromise was a shame, so he wanted to go to Zhengyangmen.

"It's a veteran of the Reconstruction Army wounded in the Russo-Japanese War, and they refused to give the order to disband, saying that unless you come and announce the disbandment in person." Li Zilong said.

"It's them......" Yang Rui smiled bitterly. The inner city of the capital was inhabited by martyrs or military dependents, and some disabled soldiers with military achievements were appointed as militia officers, although they could not read. But the popularity is very high. It is because of them that the atmosphere in the capital has changed, so what are the eight major alleys, the major famous Beijing classes, and high-end restaurants, as long as they are elegant things, the business is a mess;

Only white-knuckle fighting, shooting competitions, and various military chess are the most popular things in Beijing, and some newspapers lamented that the inner city is not the capital at all. It's a barracks. The backbone of such a self-contained military camp is the former veterans, who wanted to kill the big nose on the northeast side back then. What a pleasure to slap a small nose on the side! It is unacceptable for them to retreat today under such humiliation.

"Let's go faster." Yang Rui thought of these subordinates, and couldn't help but speed up his steps.

Meanwhile. Chessboard Street. Garrison Commander Wang Menghui was holding a loudspeaker and giving a lecture to the militia troops that would not retreat, "Comrades, today is just an exercise, and now that the exercise is over, please disband all departments!" Each department will be disbanded immediately!! ”

Wang Menghui shouted several times, but the soldiers standing on the street were unmoved, and when he changed his breath and wanted to shout again. A voice in the team shouted, "Brother Wang." Stop shouting! The foreigners have been bullied to the head, but I still say the same thing, the commander of this matter will not come, and we will not leave! ”

"That's right! If the commander doesn't come, we won't leave! This person's voice is as loud as an electric horn, he shouted half the street to hear, for a while the team echoed the sound continuously, and some people sang in a hissed voice: "You don't see, Han Zhongjun, the weak crown is a captive, please ...... long tassel."

The earliest military song of the revival army is this, the first time it was sung in South Africa, the students are all students of the patriotic society who put pen to paper, and everyone likes this song as soon as Yang Rui sings it, although it is too elegant, and the soldiers may not understand all the meanings, but it is still set as a military song when the army is built in the northeast, and it has not changed.

This military song spread to the capital with the Northeast veterans, and in the wind and snow, someone started to make a start, and the soldiers all over the street sang it. The sound of military songs will be infectious, and the singing of chessboard street and Zhengyangmen together, the troops of Zhengyangmen Street outside the city, who were the first to hear it along the wind, also began to sing, like waves in the pond, and it didn't take long for the whole city to sing military songs.

Wang Menghui is in the first issue, this singing together, he didn't want to persuade everyone to go back, he was also sung by them to tears, he threw the electric horn to the adjutant, helplessly tilted his head and smoked, for fear of tears falling down.

"Stand up! Salute! When the song resounded throughout the city, Yang Rui finally crossed Hubu Street and arrived in front of Daming Gate, where street lamps were installed everywhere in the capital at this time.

With the sound of 'standing upright, saluting', the singing slowly stopped, and nearly 10,000 militiamen in the square from Daming Gate to Zhengyangmen all looked at the shadows of the few people wearing red first-class official robes under Daming Gate, and everyone knew that the tallest one was the prime minister of the current dynasty and the former commander.

Zhengyang Gate on the fire is booming, the two-story wooden tower seems to have been supported for too long, and finally can't stand the burning of the flame and collapses suddenly, 'boom' a few sounds, more than 40 meters of towering buildings are half shorter, some eaves also fall to the cement floor under the city tower, 'Bang Chang', the wood on the ground is **, while splashing a little spark, scattered on the snow that is already white.

"Why don't you obey military orders?" Yang Rui took the electric horn handed over by Wang Menghui and began to speak.

"Why not disband?" He asked again, his voice growing harsh. "Is it for this one tower?" There was another slight pause in the voice, as if to make everyone think about what they were doing wrong.

"The tower burns down today, and tomorrow we can rebuild it!" Military discipline is loosened today, and tomorrow, we will not only not be able to build it, but will become more and more loose!

Today, we are not in the old forests of Liaodong, but here, why? It's because we have iron-clad military discipline. At that time, we were attacking and defending, tossing and turning, beating the enemy dizzy, when did we disobey military discipline for the sake of a city tower?

Watching Mr. Taiyan being beaten, watching the city tower being burned, and watching the foreign soldiers show off their might, you are distressed and resentful, don't I feel distressed and resentful? If you love the country, am I not patriotic? If you want to kill, don't I want to kill?

But you have to remember that we are China, not Manchu; We are the Renaissance Army, not the Boxers. For us, for weak countries, only unity can win, only sacrifice can win, and even, only patience can win! The more times like this, the more we must unite as one, and the more times like this, the more we must have ironclad military discipline.

In the Amazon River in South America, there is a kind of marching ant, individually, even the wind can blow them away, but they never act alone, they are millions, tens of millions of them act together. They are like an army, marching in a neat queue in one direction, and every obstacle in this direction will be overtaken by them, and any wild beast, even jackals, tigers and leopards, will be swallowed by them if they do not give way, leaving only a pile of bones.

We want to become marching ants, like them, to overcome a qiē obstacle and devour a qiē beast that stands in the way. As long as this is achieved, it will be possible and hopeful to abolish those messy and humiliating treaties and to recover those lost rights. Comrades and brothers, I promise that on that day, each and every one of you will be able to see it, and you will be able to see it soon! ”

After the speech was not too long, Yang Rui said loudly again: "Now I order: all the militia have it, stand up!" Breathe! Disband!! ”

With Yang Rui's command, the militia boots on Qipan Street sounded in unison, and began to withdraw from the square in rows, driving back to the original station, the various alleys and courtyards in the city. He had just received a telegram from US President Wilson, in which the words were extremely harsh, and the severity was almost equivalent to an ultimatum, and now that the militia had finally retreated, the matter could finally be calmed down.

In the Dutch Legation near Qipan Street, after listening to the speech translated by the general secretary, Ruinzch excitedly said to the ministers: "Gentlemen, do you hear? The Chinese don't just want Zhengyangmen, but want to take back a qiē, including here! ”

The Americans wanted to provoke the taboo of various countries against China, but the Japanese said: "Gentlemen, they are just asking for fair treatment, that's all." Even if Japan was defeated in the war, we would have nothing to lose, but on the contrary, the rights and interests that had not been recognized before would be finally protected. Your Excellency Yang Jingcheng is reasonable, if you still want to use interference to solve the China problem, then think about the Russians. ”

The arguments of Japan and the United States are as incompatible as France and Germany, and Ma Mueller is not surprised by this, and he has been bothered for a long time, but now he finally relaxes. It didn't matter, the Englishman yawned, and said lazily: "Gentlemen, I think that even if there are any problems, they should be after waking up." (To be continued......)